Biography of Violet Ida Evelyn Lane-Fox Countess Powis 1865-1929
Paternal Family Tree: Fox
On 04 May 1859 Francis Godolphin Osborne 7th Duke Leeds (age 60) died. He was buried at the Osborne Family Chapel All Hallows' Church Harthill [Map]. His first cousin George Godolphin Osborne 8th Duke Leeds (age 56) succeeded 8th Duke Leeds, 8th Earl of Danby, 8th Viscount Osborne, 8th Viscount Latimer, 8th Baron Osborne of Kinderton, 9th Baronet Osborne of Kiveton. Harriet Emma Arundel Stewart Duchess Leeds by marriage Duchess Leeds. His nephew [her father] Sackville George Lane-Fox 15th Baron Darcy of Knayth 12th Baron Conyers (age 31) succeeded 15th Baron Darcy of Knayth, 12th Baron Conyers.
On 14 Aug 1860 [her father] Sackville George Lane-Fox 15th Baron Darcy of Knayth 12th Baron Conyers (age 32) and [her mother] Mary Curteis were married.
In 1865 Violet Ida Evelyn Lane-Fox Countess Powis was born to Sackville George Lane-Fox 15th Baron Darcy of Knayth 12th Baron Conyers (age 37) and Mary Curteis.
On 24 Aug 1888 [her father] Sackville George Lane-Fox 15th Baron Darcy of Knayth 12th Baron Conyers (age 60) died. Baron Conyers and Baron Darcy of Knayth abeyant between his two daughters [her sister] Marcia Amelia Mary Lane-Fox Countess Yarborough (age 24) and Violet Ida Evelyn Lane-Fox Countess Powis (age 23).
Around Dec 1890 George Herbert 4th Earl Powis (age 28) and Violet Ida Evelyn Lane-Fox Countess Powis (age 25) were married.
On 07 May 1891 Edward Herbert 3rd Earl Powis (age 72) died unmarried at 45 Berkeley Square, Mayfair. He was buried in St Mary's Church, Welshpool. His nephew [her husband] George Herbert 4th Earl Powis (age 28) succeeded 4th Earl Powis. Violet Ida Evelyn Lane-Fox Countess Powis (age 26) by marriage Countess Powis.
In 1892 [her son] Percy Robert Herbert was born to [her husband] George Herbert 4th Earl Powis (age 29) and Violet Ida Evelyn Lane-Fox Countess Powis (age 27).
In 1900 [her daughter] Hermione Gwladys Herbert was born to [her husband] George Herbert 4th Earl Powis (age 37) and Violet Ida Evelyn Lane-Fox Countess Powis (age 35).
In 1903 Violet Ida Evelyn Lane-Fox Countess Powis (age 38) abeyance terminated 16th Baroness Darcy of Knayth.
On 07 May 1904 [her son] Mervyn Horatio Herbert 17th Baron Darcy of Knayth was born to [her husband] George Herbert 4th Earl Powis (age 41) and Violet Ida Evelyn Lane-Fox Countess Powis (age 39).
The Times. 22 Jun 1910. LORD ACHESON (age 33) AND MISS CARTER (age 22).
The marriage of Viscount Acheson (age 33), elder son of the Earl (age 68) and Countess of Gosford (age 54), and Miss Mildred Carter (age 22), only daughter of Mr. J. Ridgely Carter (age 46), American Minister to Rumania, and Mrs. Ridgely Carter (age 45), took place yesterday at St. George's, Hanover-square. The Sub-Dean of the Chapels Royal (the Rev. Edgar Sheppard, D.D.) performed the ceremony, assisted by the Rev. David Anderson and other clergy, and Mr. Ridgely Carter (age 46) gave his daughter away. She wore a very simple wedding gown of soft white satin with a long train draped with old point de Venise, and a Venetian lace cap over a spray of myrtle and orange blossom, covered by a plain tulle veil. Master David Stanley, Master Julian Ward, and Miss Diana Roberts, dressed all in white, followed the bride, and there were seven bridesmaids, Lady Theo Acheson (age 28) (sister of the bridegroom), Lady Victoria Stanley, Mlle. Irene deo La Grange, Miss Canilla Morgan, the Hon. Rhoda Astley, Miss Elsie Nicholl, and Miss Marian Scranton, who wore white chiffon dresses with draped bodices and wreaths of myrtle beneath tulle veils. They also wore diamond neckislides and carried loose bunches of red roses. The Hon. Patrick Acheson (age 26) was best man to his brother.
Mrs. Ridgely Carter (age 45) afterwards held a large reception at Dorchester House (lent by the American Ambassador and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid), and among the many who came on from the church were the French, Russian, German, Spanish, and Italian Ambassadors, the Danish Minister, tho Rumanian Minister, the Swedish Minister and Countess Wrangel, Mme. Dominguez, the Servian Charge d'Affaires and Mme. Grouitel, the Chilian Minister and Mme. Gana, the Belgian Minister and Countess de Lalaing, the Duke (age 63) and Duchess of Somerset (age 57), Katharine Duchess of Westminster (age 53) and Lady Helen Grosvenor (age 22), Prince and Princess Alexis Dolgorouki, the Marquis and Marchioness of Hamilton, the Marchioness of Tweeddale, the Marquis (age 48) and Marchioness of Salisbury (age 42), the Marchioness of Anglesey (age 26), the Countess of Powis (age 45), the Earl (age 56) and Countess of Chesterfield, the Countess of Kintore and Lady Hilda Keith-Falconer, the Earl (age 68) and Countess of Gosford (age 54), Prince and Princess Frederick Liechtenstein, the Countess of Kimberley, Countess Grey, the Marquis d'Hautpoul, the Countess of Leicester (age 54) and Lady Bridget Coke (age 19), the Earl (age 41) and Countess of Craven (age 38), the Earl of Desart, Countess Fritz Hochberg, the Earl and Countess of Meath, the Countess of Bilmorey, the Countess of Londesborough (age 49) and Lady Irene Denison (age 19), the Earl and Countess of Derby (age 70), the Earl (age 51) and Countess of Yarborough (age 51), Ellen Lady Inchiquin and the Hon Lilah O'Brien, Lord and Lady Charles Beresford, Lord and Lady Leith of Fyvie, Lady Saltoun, Baroness Nunburnholme (age 30), Baroness Newborough, Sir John and Lady Lister-Raye, Lord and Lady Monson, Lord and Baroness Savile, Lady Rothschild, Viscount and Viscountess AIdleton, Lady Alexander Paget, Lady Harcourt, Lady Desborough, Lord Suffield, Sir Herbert and Lady Jekyll and Miss Jekyll, the Hon. Sir Francis and Baroness Ufford and Miss Viliers, Lady Heien Vincent, Lord Knaresborough and the Hon. Helen Meysey-Thompson, Lady Pauncefote, Lord and Lady Weardale, Lady Grace Baring, Lord Strathcona, Lady Margaret Graham and Miss Graham, Sir Francis and Lady Channing, Mary Baroness Gerard, Baroness Manners and the Hon. Misses Manners, Lady Edward Cavendish, Mme. Langenbach, Lord Revelstoke, the Countess of Bessborough (age 84) and Ladv Gweneth Ponsonby (age 22), Lord Aberdare and the Hon. Eva Bruce, the Hon. Harry and Mrs. Lawson, Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Martin, Mrs. F. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Arthur James, Mrs. Walter Burns, Mrs. Lewis Harcourt, Mrs. Lowther and Miss Lokther, Mine. Vagliano, Captain and Mrs. Clonman, Miss Ralli, Mr. William Giuett, Mrs: Hwfa Williams, the Hon. Mrs. Derek Keppel, Mr. William Phillips, Mrs. Frank D'Arcy, the Hon. Lady Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Meyer Sassoon, Sir Bartle Frere, Mme. de Bille, Mrs. Featherston- haugh, Mrs. Cotton Jodrell, Mrs. Frank Mackay, the Hon. Urs. Charles Lawrence, the Hon. Mrs. Rochfort Maguire, Lady Barrymore, Mrs. Chauncey, and Mrs. Ronalds.
Lord (age 33) and Lady Acheson (age 22) left later in the afternoon for the Continent, the bride (age 22) travelling in a dress of grey chiffon and a large hat swathed in tulle to match the dress.
A list of the principal wedding presents was published in The Times yesterday.
In 1916 [her son] Percy Robert Herbert (age 24) died from wounds received at the Battle of the Somme.
On 12 Nov 1921 [her mother] Mary Curteis died.
In 1929 Violet Ida Evelyn Lane-Fox Countess Powis (age 64) died. Her son [her son] Mervyn Horatio Herbert 17th Baron Darcy of Knayth (age 24) succeeded 17th Baron Darcy of Knayth.
On 09 Nov 1952 [her former husband] George Herbert 4th Earl Powis (age 90) died. His first cousin once removed Edward Herbert 5th Earl of Powis (age 63) succeeded 5th Earl Powis.
Kings Wessex: Great x 25 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 21 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 27 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 22 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 8 Grand Daughter of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
Kings Scotland: Great x 18 Grand Daughter of Robert "The Bruce" I King Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 21 Grand Daughter of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 15 Grand Daughter of Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Fox
Great x 2 Grandfather: Sackville Fox 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Lane 1st Viscount Lanesborough
Great x 3 Grandmother: Frances Lane 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Frances Sackville Viscountess Lanesborough 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: James Lane-Fox 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
GrandFather: Sackville Lane-Fox 14 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Pitt 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: George Pitt of Stratfield Saye 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: George Pitt 1st Baron Rivers 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Marcia Lucy Pitt 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Father: Sackville George Lane-Fox 15th Baron Darcy of Knayth 12th Baron Conyers 7 x Great Grand Son of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Peregrine Osborne 3rd Duke Leeds 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Osborne 4th Duke Leeds 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Francis Osborne 5th Duke Leeds 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Francis Godolphin 2nd Earl Godolphin 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Godolphin Duchess Leeds 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Henrietta Churchill 2nd Duchess Marlborough 15 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: George William Frederick Osborne 6th Duke Leeds 5 x Great Grand Son of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Darcy 3rd Earl Holderness 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Darcy 4th Earl Holderness 3 x Great Grand Son of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Frederica Schomberg Countess Holderness and Fitzwalter 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
Great x 2 Grandmother: Amelia Darcy 12th Baroness Darcy 9th Baroness Conyers 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
GrandMother: Charlotte Mary Anne Georgiana Osborne 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Charles Townshend 2nd Viscount Townsend 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Charles Townshend 3rd Viscount Townsend 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Pelham Viscountess Townsend 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: George Townshend 1st Marquess Townshend 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Harrison 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Audrey aka Etheldreda Harrison 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Charlotte Townshend Duchess Leeds 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Montgomery 1st Baronet
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Montgomery Marchioness Townshend
Great x 3 Grandmother: Hannah Tomkyns
Violet Ida Evelyn Lane-Fox Countess Powis 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
Mother: Mary Curteis